Teaching Beginning Sounds for Special Education and Toddlers (With a Free Cut-and-Paste Activity)
Teach beginning sounds effectively with engaging, hands-on strategies for toddlers and special education students. This comprehensive guide includes practical tips, multi-sensory activities, and a free cut-and-paste beginning sounds worksheet to build early phonics and reading skills. Perfect for teachers, homeschoolers, and parents supporting early literacy development.
Why Boardmaker Visuals and PECS Are Essential in the Classroom
Looking for effective ways to support communication, reduce challenging behaviours, and build consistent routines in your classroom? Boardmaker visuals and PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System) are powerful tools that help students better understand expectations, express their needs, and navigate daily activities with confidence. By incorporating visual schedules, first-then boards, and communication cards, educators can create a structured, predictable learning environment that promotes independence and minimizes frustration.
In this blog post, you’ll discover practical strategies for using visual supports in the classroom, along with ready-to-use PECS resources that can save you time and make implementation simple. Whether you’re working in special education or a general classroom setting, these tools can transform your daily routines and support all learners. Read on to learn how to effectively use visuals to improve behaviour, increase engagement, and foster student success.
How to Teach Toddlers and Preschoolers to Count (Fun & Easy Methods)
Looking for engaging counting worksheets? Grab these FREE cut and paste printables and discover easy ways to teach toddlers and preschoolers to count. Perfect for fine motor skills, math centers, and early counting practice.
The Importance of Color Matching Activities for Early Learners (Free Worksheet Included!)
This free color matching printable is a fun and interactive way to teach color recognition, sorting, and fine motor skills. Students cut out pictures and match them to colors like red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, and pink—ideal for preschool, kindergarten, and special education settings.
Safe Hands Social Story: How to Teach No Hitting in Special Education Classrooms
Do you have a student in your special education class who is hitting, scratching and grabbing teachers. other students? Are you looking for strategies to eliminate this behavior? Try using a safe hands social story adapted book! Adapted books increase engagement and reception of the content so the student understands why they should have safe hands, how others feel when they are unsafe and also how they feel when they have safe hands.
The Power of Adapted Books: Why They’re So Effective for Children with Special Needs
Adapted books are a great way to increase engagement and reception of the content. My students in a developmental disabilities LOVE adapted books as a bin system activity, 1:1 lesson or independent reading activity. I have adapted books based on literacy, math, science and more!
The Ultimate Busy Binder for Preschool & Special Education: Hands-On Learning Made Easy
Looking for a hands-on learning tool for early learners? Discover the ultimate Busy Binder for Preschool and Special Education—a printable resource packed with interactive alphabet, number, color, and shape activities. Perfect for morning work, SPED classrooms, ABA, and homeschool routines. Boost independence and foundational skills with this low-prep binder!
Equal Sharing Fractions Activity for Special Education - Grade 2 Math
Looking for a hands-on Grade 2 equal sharing activity for your special education class? Students will love these cute task cards that include visuals of commonly preferred items like cookies, police cars and pizza! Students will look at the visuals of images then equally share them among the number of sharers. Then they will put a clothes peg on the correct number. This can be done 1:1, in a small group or even as an independent work task. Sometimes it can be tricky teaching fair sharing among numbers that do not equally divide into each other. So these task cards are great to ease them into the fraction concepts! You can begin with giving the students the task cards with visual prompts! These prompts include circles that indicate how much of each object, each sharer will receive.
Even or Odd Numbers Activities for Special Education (Copy)
Are you looking for a hands on activity on EVEN AND ODD NUMBERS for special education? Check out these task cards! Student looks at the number and puts a clothes peg on whether the number is even or odd. This activity also comes with a key concepts task card that serves as a visual reminder of the rules to know how to identify if a number is even or odd. Keep reading for tips on how to teach students with special needs, the concepts of even or odd.
Skip Counting Activities for Special Education
Are you looking for a hands on activity on SKIP COUNTING by 20s, 25s and 50s for special education? This activity comes with 29 different task cards. Student looks at the number pattern and puts a clothes peg on the next number in the sequence. This activity is ideal for the Grade 2 Number Sense: Whole Numbers Unit, especially for students on modified programming or special education.
Estimation Activities for Special Education
Looking for a hands-on estimating quantities activity for your special education class? Estimating quantities of objects is a challenging concept, especially for our special education students. Often, students prefer to simply count objects and have a hard time making educated guesses on the total amount of objects. Check out these estimation task cards and estimating worksheets which are perfect for students with special needs!
Bingo Game Printables Based on Different Holidays
Are you looking for a LOW PREP BINGO games based on different holidays?! From Valentines Day BINGO, St. Patricks Day BINGO and Easter BINGO, theres something for everyone! These BINGO activities have 2 differentiated options: Matching pictures or only words. Simply print, cut and you are ready to go! In our class, we like to laminate activities so we have a fun activity to reuse every year for each holiday! Each PDF also comes with tokens for students to use to cover the called words/pictures. OR you can challenge your students' fine motor by using varied manipulatives! Some ideas are tweezers & pompoms, play dough or small beads!
10 Fluffy Chickens Song Activity for Special Education
Check out this 10 Fluffy Chickens Song Adapted Book! Students will enjoy reading or singing the cute Easter song. This activity would be perfect for April, Easter or as a fun literacy or music activity!
This adapted book also comes with a complimentary worksheet! Students will count the chickens and draw a line to the corresponding number.
Do Your Ears Stand Up Song Activity for Special Education
Thanks for checking out my Do Your Ears Point Up Song Adapted Book! Students will enjoy reading or singing the cute St.Patrick's Day song that follows the same tune as the nursery rhyme classic, Do your ears hang low. This activity would be perfect for March, St.Patricks Day or as a fun literacy or music activity! You can read this nursery rhyme book as a class lesson, during circle time, 1:1 to assess reading, or have it as an independent activity!
This adapted book comes with 2 progressive options. Begin with matching picture to picture. Then once the students are proficient at this skill, swap out the picture PECs with the word PECs! This allows the students to focus more on the words on the page and increase attentiveness!
I’m A Little Leprechaun Song Activity for Special Education
Thanks for checking out my I'm A Little Leprechaun Song Adapted Book! Students will enjoy reading or singing the cute St.Patrick's Day song that follows the same tune as the nursery rhyme classic, I'm A Little Teapot. This activity would be perfect for March, St.Patricks Day or as a fun literacy or music activity! You can read this nursery rhyme book as a class lesson, during circle time, 1:1 to assess reading, or have it as an independent activity!
Follow up the adapted book with the Leprechaun Trap Worksheet which is modified for special education! There are 2 levels; with prompts and without prompts, so every student in your class can participate! Students will be asked to draw a leprechaun trap and describe the materials used. Take this one step further and actually create the trap using simple materials!
5 Little Hearts Song Activity for Special Education
Thanks for checking out my Five Little Hearts Song Adapted Book and Valentines Craft! Students will enjoy reading or singing the cute valentines day song, 5 Little Hearts. This song is inspired by the tune of the popular, 5 little pumpkins! This valentines day activity would be perfect for February, Valentine's Day or as a fun literacy or art activity! You can read this nursery rhyme book as a class lesson, during circle time, 1:1 to assess reading, or have it as an independent activity!
5 Little Valentines Song Activity for Special Education
Thanks for checking out my Five Little Valentines Song Adapted Book and Valentines Craft! Students will enjoy reading or singing the cute valentines day song, 5 Little Valentines. This song is inspired by the tune of the popular, 5 little monkeys jumping on the bed! This valentines day activity would be perfect for February, Valentine's Day or as a fun literacy or art activity! You can read this nursery rhyme book as a class lesson, during circle time, 1:1 to assess reading, or have it as an independent activity!
Song boards for Circle Time - Holiday Christmas Carol Songs
Sing-a-long music circles creates an open opportunity for important social interactions, movement breaks, and building vocabulary. This circle time resource includes a song choice board which increases active participation and turn taking in circle time. It also includes 5 different interactive song boards based on children holiday song classics and Christmas Carols. From 5 Little Snowmen, Reindeer Pokey, 12 Days of Christmas & More!
12 Days of Christmas Song Activity for Special Education
Adapted books are books that are modified to fit a child's specific needs. They usually include visual supports and tactile objects that allow the student to actively participate in the book. This adapted book is about the Christmas Carol, Twelve Days of Christmas. You can read this winter nursery rhyme book as a class lesson, during circle time, 1:1 to assess reading, or have it as an independent activity! Students are asked to read the book, then match the picture from the PECs on the side!
Deck the Halls Song Activity for Special Education
Adapted books are books that are modified to fit a child's specific needs. They usually include visual supports and tactile objects that allow the student to actively participate in the book. This adapted book is about the Christmas Carol, Deck the Halls Students are asked to read the book, then match the picture from the PECs on the side! This song adapted book would be perfect for the Holiday season or as a fun literacy or music activity!